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...truck hauling a few apples, a copper wire actually has lots of empty space. The DSLAM throws in bushels of data and video. "This has been one of the single biggest enhancements to the technology," says Guido Garrone, chief technology officer of Milan-based Internet company FastWeb, which offers VOD to its subscribers. Who gets credit? Paris-based Alcatel dominates the global $3.3 billion DSLAM market with a 38.1% share, according to Gartner Inc. (China's Huawei is second with 9.9%). Alcatel not only revved up the DSLAM but made it cheaper by deploying a technology called Ethernet that...
...service, in which it sells a TiVo-like "personal video recorder" for $322 to subscribers. But sales of Sky+ have crawled along. There are other threats, too. BSkyB lacks the technological goods to deliver what soothsayers believe to be the next big thing in television: video-on-demand (VOD), a service that allows viewers to select from an immense archive of films and programs through their television remote control. But vod requires land-based technology - like cable TV lines or high-speed telephone wires - and BSkyB, a satellite service, has neither. To offset this threat, BSkyB could conceivably team...
...industries are also at odds on the technology that drives TiVo and its imitators. These services allow you to record any show by name, zip through commercials and pause live TV. DISH and DirecTV have embraced the concept, but most cable companies prefer something similar called VOD (video on demand). Unfortunately, VOD is available in only a handful of markets right now and is mostly just for movies...
...industries are also at odds on the technology that drives TiVo and its imitators. These services allow you to record any show by name, zip through commercials and pause live TV. DISH and DirecTV have embraced the concept, but most cable companies prefer something similar called VOD (video on demand). Unfortunately, VOD is available in only a handful of markets right now and is mostly just for movies...
...future this may allow us to treat patients who otherwise would be denied transplants because of their high risk of VOD,” Richardson said in a press release...